It's been tough to stay positive. To not feel just totally defeated. I had written a long post here about everything but decided to delete it.

All I will say is, in case any of you happen to be wondering why there are so few women (insert profession here) throughout history, it's because of oppression in various forms: stigma attached to a professional woman, books not being published or purchased, men taking the work and putting their own name on it. And it hasn't stopped. I am literally
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I've gotten a few messages so I thought I would post an update. I've had to divert my time toward a new kind of alchemy, which is being tied into a fictional story. I'm also building my little cottage out in the woods, and that's eating up every minute of my days-off from a day-job I took.

I'll definitely be back to lab work at some point, but my energy is focused on other matters at the moment. Not sure how long the house will take, but November will
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